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A Streetcar Named Desire Quotations Flashcards

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What music is used as a motif to highlight Blanche’s mental distress?

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“Blue piano,”

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What quote demonstrate the racial diversity within New Orleans?

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“easy intermingling of races,”

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What adjectives in scene 1 demonstrate the contrasts between Stanley and Stella?

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“bellowing,” and, “mildly,”

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What adjectives is used to demonstrate the Blanche doesn’t fit into her setting?

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“incongruous,”

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What quote demonstrates that the Du Bois’ liveliness and wealth was built on slavery?

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“A great big place with white columns,”

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What quote shows Blanche’s use of alcohol as a coping mechanism?

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“I look around for some liquor,”

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What quote illustrates Blanche’s inability to accept progression?

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“What are you doing in a place like this?”

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What quote shows the central dominance of Blanche’s mind?

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“You never did give me a chance to say much,”

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What quote illustrates Blanche’s vanity because of her fear of growing old?

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“You haven’t said a word about my appearance,”

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How does Stella describe Stanley?

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“A different species,”

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What quote illustrates that Stanley is a form of protection for her?

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“I cry on his lap like a baby,”

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How is imagery used to show her desperation to hold onto Belle reve?

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“I stayed and fought for it, bled for it, almost died for it,”

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What quote highlights the horror of deaths for Blanche?

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“And funerals are pretty compared to deaths,”

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How does Blanche reduce Stella and Stanley’s relationship to sex?

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“In bed with your Polack,”

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What animalistic lexicon characterises him as predatory?

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“animal joy in his being implicit in all his movements and attitudes,”

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16
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What costumes characterise Blanche as frail?

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“feathers and furs,”

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What quote demonstrates Stanley’s realism towards Blanche’s facade?

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“Some men are took in by all this Hollywood glamour stuff and some are not,”

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18
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What reminds her of her youth?

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“love - letters,”

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19
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What symbolises a new beginning?

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Stella and Stanley’s baby

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What simile illustrates the power of the men?

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“powerful as the primary colours,”

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21
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What does Blanche attempt to use to hide reality?

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“A paper lantern,”

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What quote highlights Blanche’s fears to be visually and emotionally exposed?

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“I can’t stand a naked light bulb,”

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How does Stanley’s animalistic nature reflect onto his relationship with Stella?

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“They come together with low, animal moans,”

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How can Stella be viewed as childish as well as adapting to the new south in scene 4?

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“comics,”

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What is used as a symbol of Stanley’s sexual dominance?

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“gaudy pyjamas,”

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What quote highlights the toxicity of Stella and Stanley’s relationship?

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“I was - sort of- thrilled by,”

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What quote illustrates that there are expectations for women?

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“Then who’s going to do it? Are you?”

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28
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How does Blanch describe her dependence for wealth and social status?

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“how indifferent I am to money. I think of money in terms of what it does for you.”

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29
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How is desire described?

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“brutal,”

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30
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What quote implies that desire is a trap?

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“rattle-trap,”

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What quote symbolises that the streetcar is used as Blanche’s metaphoric journey?

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“It brought me here,”

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What allegory is used to highlight Stanley’s thrusting masculinity?

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“a train approaches,”

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33
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What simile implies her classist views to Stanley?

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“ape-like about him,”

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What quote helps to draw parallels between Stanley and Blanche’s desire for sex?

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“bearing the raw meat home from the kill in the jungle,”

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35
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How do the stage directions illustrate that Eunice is challenging Steve?

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“A clatter of aluminium,”

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What does Stella say that illustrates that alcohol is a coping mechanism?

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“That’s much more practical,”

37
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What quote illustrates the connection between gender and sensitivity as well as Blanche’s desire for company?

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” I never was hard or self - sufficient enough. When people are soft - soft people have got to court the favour if hard ones […] And I - I’m fading now,”

38
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What adverb illustrates Blanche’s physical exhaustion?

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“lifelessly,”

39
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What quote links to, “social laws,”?

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“The one that says the lady must entertain the gentleman - or no dice,”

40
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How does Blanche portray herself as a virgin?

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” a girl alone in the world, has got to keep a firm hold on her emotions or she’ll be lost!”

41
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What comical moment is used in scene 6?

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“puts his hand on her waist and raises her lightly off the ground,”

42
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How is light used as a symbol to reveal Blanche’s past?

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“blinding light,”

43
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What plastic theatre is used to demonstrate the impact of the shot?

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“The polka stops abruptly,”

44
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How does Blanche’s language illustrate the impact of the shot on her character?

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“turned on the world was turned off,”

45
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What is Blanche doing in scene 7?

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“Blanche is singing in the bathroom,”

46
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What song does she sing that reflects the delusion within Blanche?

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“Paper moon,”

47
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How does Stella want to believe the truth?

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“What - contemptible - lies,”

48
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How can Blanche’s relationship with Allan be defined as?

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“worshipped,”

49
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What does Blanche have at the end of scene 7?

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“A heretic breakdown,”

50
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How is lighting used to symbolise the time of day?

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“fading gradually into a still - golden dusk,”

51
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How does Stanley laugh?

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“Feebly,”

52
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How does Stella insult Stanley?

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“Mr Kowalski is too busy making a pig of himself,”

53
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How does Stanley establish patriarchy?

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“Every man is a king,”

54
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What is Stanley’s response to the insult?

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“People from Poland are poles […] what I am is one hundred percent American,”

55
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What does Stanley get Blanche for her birthday making her feel dejected?

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“Ticket! Back to Laurel!”

56
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How does Blanche not recognise that she can only hear the polka due to her fear of loneliness?

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“You’ve stopped that polka tune that I caught in my head,”

57
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What happens after a revolver shot is heard in scene 9?

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“The polka music dies out again,”

58
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What does Blanche like?

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“I like it dark. The dark is comforting to me,”

59
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How does Mitch reveal Blanche’s facade?

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“He tears the paper lantern,”

60
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What hotel does Blanche stay at?

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“Tarantula,”

61
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How does Blanche believe in her own fantasy?

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“Never inside, I didn’t lie in my heart,”

62
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How is Blanche’s tragedy manifested into the diegetic of the play?

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“A blind Mexican woman,”

63
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How does Mitch believe he is entitled to be sex because Blanche isn’t a virgin?

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“You’re not clean enough to bring in the house with my mother.”

64
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How have her lies been exposed?

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“It hangs open,”

65
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How is costume used to illustrate Blanche’s mental decline?

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“Crumpled white satin evening gown,”

66
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What happens to symbolise Blanche’s fading?

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“Slams the mirror face down,”

67
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How does Blanche become more absorbed in her own fantasy?

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“An oil - millionaire,”

68
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How does Stanley create an expectation for Blanche?

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“The silk pyjamas I wore on my wedding night,”

69
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What quote links to Blanche’s cruelty?

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“Deliberate cruelty is not forgivable,”

70
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What does Stanley call her?

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“The queen of the Nile,”

71
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How is Blanche surrounded by horrors?

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“The shadows are of a grotesque and menacing form,”

72
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How is a dangerous situation foreshadowed?

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“Caught in a trap,”

73
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How does Stanley play with Blanche?

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“He stares at her for a count of 10,”

74
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What animalistic imagery does Stanley use to be sexually playful with Blanche?”

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“Tiger - tiger,”

75
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How does Stanley break Blanche’s power of sexuality?

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“Inert figure,”

76
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How has timed moved on by scene 11?

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“Some weeks later,”

77
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How does Blanche still want to move on with her life?

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“Bathing,”

78
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Why does Stella stay with Stanley?

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” I couldn’t believe her story and go on living with Stanley,”

79
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How is life a cycle for the female characters?

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“Life has got to go on,”

80
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How is Mitch depressed about Blanche’s mental decline?

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“His gaze is dissolved into space,”

81
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How does Stanley destroy Blanche’s facade to illustrate his ultimate victory?

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“seizes the paper lantern,”

82
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What quote contrasts hegemonic behavior in Mitch?

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“Mitch collapses at the table, sobbing,”

83
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What quote demonstrates how Blanche isn’t self- reliant?

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“I have always depended on the kindness of stranger,”

84
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What does Stanley do after Blanche has left?

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“Find the opening of her blouse,”

85
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How is life symbolised to continue?

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“seven - card stud,”

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